Posts by truthseeker

i have felt many emotions in my life and anxiety, many times but this is different.. it's a sense of the impending, a build up of pressure like a wall of water behind a cracking dam.

when does it break?.

truthseeker

I completely agree with Metatron.

Perhaps it's because human society has reached such a level of connectedness that we are at that "Tower of Babel" moment where there is one voice and nothing in mind that humans cannot accomplish.

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SAD news about OOMPA......

by redredrose in

jw
friends

our friend, oompa, has passed away.

just recieved the news a couple of hours ago, and have almost no details.

it happened today or yesterday, he took his own life.

truthseeker

RIP Oompa,

You will be missed

Truthseeker

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ABOUT TERRY

by Quentin in

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friends

terry was admitted to the hospital yesterday.

he has a severe case of cellulites which has affected his neck glands.

his face and neck are very swollen.

truthseeker

Terry,

I am so sorry to hear about your illness and I wish you a speedy recovery.

Truthseeker

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Do You Still Have Dreams with JW Scenarios ? My recent Dream- Opinions...

by flipper in

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friends

... appreciated !

as some of you know i've been logging my dreams since dec. of 2010 and am up to 184 pages worth now.

some of them have been disturbing dreams dealing with jw expereiences as i was a jw from birth until age 44 when i exited 9 years ago.

truthseeker

Since leaving the JWs, I have had many dreams about my old life, none of them good, all of them weird.

Most times, I am in the kingdom hall and the "friends" are ignoring me. In my dream, they know my status and turn their heads away when we make eye contact.

Some dreams I am still an active but doubting dub in good standing and I'm asked to give talks. I end up not giving them because I don't believe what they have to say.

Truthseeker

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Born-ins (childhood memories)

by tornapart in

as a born in, or in at a very young age, what were your worst memories as a young jw child?.

i remember not being allowed to go to sleep in the meetings when i was tired.

not being allowed to do lots of things at school other kids could do.

truthseeker

Where do I start?

Boring three day assemblies. Sitting in Twickingham stadium on a roasting hot day listening to mind numbing symposiums.

Friday night school and service meetings

Having no friends in the kingdom hall and not allowed to have non JW friends

Being afraid that Jehovah would destroy me at Armageddon because I didn't enjoy the ministry

Not being able to go on a school camping trip

Us vs them mentality

Having to leave the assembly hall when prayers were said

The relentless bullying at school. Being called jovah witness.

Hoping there were no classmates living in the territory we worked

Long coach rides to hayesbridge assembly hall.

I grew up socially awkward and weird. I did get asked out by girls but always turned them down. One girl was persistent at work. I felt so bad.

You grow up being tuned into negative news and I worried about what would happen during the great tribulation. I often had bad dreams about this.

Studying the chapters on sex in the "your youth" book with my mother and eventually the "young people ask" book

Always being told to do more, more, more

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JWs And Near Death Experiences

by Cold Steel in

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truthseeker

My take on NDEs is this:

Our consciousness is separate from our body but is connected to it by an invisible umbilical cord. At the moment of passing, the cord is severed. I do believe in life after death.

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Moshe received proof of a spiritual afterlife in 1999

by moshe in

i have posted this experience of mine before- it's time to resurrect it again.. in 1999 i was in bed asleep and i had a dream- my father and i were shoping at a clothing store called fazios, that i hadn't been inside since i was a boy (closed for many years).

we were looking at some denim overhalls and in walks my mother and brother ( she died in 1991 and my brother had died five months previously).

they told my dad, it's time to go.

truthseeker

Moshe,

Thanks for sharing, it was very interesting.

I believe the spirit world exists.

Truthseeker

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The Resurrection - Gender-less Humans or Spirit Beings?

by Badfish in

"in the resurrection neither do men marry nor are women given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven.

" (mathew 22:30).

also, what about their offspring?

truthseeker

Consider too, the scripture that says, "he will satisfy the desire of every living thing"

If 20 billion people are to be resurrected to a future Paradise Earth, how will they not desire to get married and have children? They wouldn't be human, but rather some peculiar reincarnation of their former self and missing their gender specific anatomy.

I believe we go to heaven when we die and we keep our personality and the thought expressions associated with our gender assigned at conception - the difference is we won't have the feelings to procreate - love, however, is another matter.